Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) March 7.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY, March 7.
1862: The Battle of Elk Horn Tavern (Pea Ridge), Arkansas begins. The Federals are under the command of Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis with 10,500 troops. The Confederates are commanded by Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn with an army of 16,500 men. Curtis was staging an invasion after driving out Maj. Gen. Sterling Price and the Missouri State Guard from Missouri. Van Dorn was ordered to stop the invasion. The first day of the battle is a stalemate.
1865: Carolinas Campaign: Confederates in North Carolina assemble reinforcements in hopes of stopping Sherman's juggernaut force from approaching the state. The Northerners have committed numerous war crimes against civilians throughout South Carolina. General Joseph E. Johnston is in command of the Army of Tennessee and other elements being assembled.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, March 7.
Maj. Gen. Henry DeLamar Clayton was born on this day in 1827 in Pulaski, Georgia. Prior to the war he was a lawyer and politician in Clayton, Alabama, and was elected to the state House of Representatives and served from 1857 to 1861. Clayton also got active in the state militia in 1860 organizing the 3rd Alabama Volunteers. When Alabama seceded in January 1861, he led his men to Pensacola, Florida, and was formally mustered into the Confederate Army in March as colonel of the 1st Alabama Infantry. His regiment was in the Battle in the Bay for Fort Barrancas. He resigned in January 1862 but soon organized another regiment, the 39th Alabama Infantry, and took part in Bragg's Kentucky Campaign of 1862. With the Army of Tennessee, he fought at the battles of Murfreesboro where he was wounded and promoted to brigadier general in April 1863. Clayton's other battles included Chickamauga, Chattanooga, New Hope Church, Franklin, Nashville, and at the end of the war the Carolina Campaign. He resigned in April 1865 and returned home. In the postwar years, he resumed his career in the law, served as a judge, and was president of the University of Alabama until his death on Oct. 3, 1889, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was buried in City Cemetery in Eufaula, Alabama.
Brig. Gen. John Bratton was born on this day in 1831 in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Prior to the war, he was a physician and planter. Bratton joined the Confederate Army as a private in 1861 in Co. C, 6th South Carolina Infantry. After only a month he was promoted to captain and on March 1, 1862, became colonel of the regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general on May 6, 1864. Bratton's battles included Seven Pines, where he was wounded and captured, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Petersburg, and Appomattox. After the war, Bratton was a cotton farmer and raised livestock. He was also active in Democratic Party politics and was elected state comptroller general of South Carolina and served in the State Legislature. Bratton died on Jan. 12, 1898, in Winnsboro, S.C., and was buried at St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery.
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